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"sense": "to walk slowly",
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"word": "camminare a fatica"
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"sense": "to walk slowly",
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"sense": "to walk slowly",
"word": "māngaingai"
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"sense": "to walk slowly",
"word": "māngaingai ngā waewae"
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"sense": "to walk slowly",
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"word": "тащи́ться"
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"word": "волочи́ться"
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"sense": "to walk slowly",
"word": "caminar pesadamente"
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"sense": "to walk slowly",
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"word": "உந்துதல்"
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"word": "நகர்தல்"
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"word": "чвалати"
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"text": "1597, Michael Drayton, “Edward the fourth to Shores wife” in Englands Heroicall Epistles, London: N. Ling,\nPoore plodding schoolemen, they are farre too low,\nwhich by probations, rules and axiom’s goe,\nHe must be still familiar with the skyes,\nwhich notes the reuolutions of thine eyes;"
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"English countable nouns",
"English derogatory terms"
],
"glosses": [
"a police officer, especially a low-ranking one."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(UK, mildly derogatory, countable) a police officer, especially a low-ranking one."
],
"tags": [
"UK",
"countable",
"derogatory",
"mildly",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/plɒd/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɒd"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɑːd"
},
{
"audio": "en-us-plod.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2c/En-us-plod.ogg/En-us-plod.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/En-us-plod.ogg",
"tags": [
"US"
],
"text": "Audio (US)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"sense": "the police",
"word": "police"
},
{
"sense": "police officer",
"word": "police officer"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "polícija",
"sense": "the police",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "поли́ција"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "policáec",
"sense": "a police officer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "полица́ец"
},
{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "cájkan",
"sense": "a police officer",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "ца́јкан"
}
],
"word": "plod"
}
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